Abstract: Providing, hosting, and playing a bingo game associated with real or virtual events occurring independently, which may be randomly occurring or skill-based, real or virtual events occurring in real-time, such as those occurring in sporting events or one or more video games being played by one or more players, which may be human players playing or a computer player using artificial intelligence.

Abstract: A pair of stands are spaced one from the other to support opposite ends of an upper shell and diaphragm halves of a turbine at locations along the upper shell axially beyond the diaphragm halves. Carts mounted on wheels each have a hydraulically actuated lift and a platform mounting support assemblies engagable with an upper diaphragm half at the midline. By engaging a diaphragm half from below the upper shell, securing the support assemblies to the upper diaphragm half and releasing the upper diaphragm half from the upper shell by removing bolts and keys to transfer the weight of the diaphragm half to the cart, the diaphragm half may be lowered from the upper shell and moved away. The diaphragm halves may then be refurbished and the process reversed to reinstall the diaphragm halves into the upper shell. During the process, the upper shell remains in its normal orientation, similarly as in the turbine.

Abstract: A pair of stands are spaced one from the other to support opposite ends of an upper shell and diaphragm halves of a turbine at locations along the upper shell axially beyond the diaphragm halves. Carts mounted on wheels each have a hydraulically actuated lift and a platform mounting support assemblies engagable with an upper diaphragm half at the midline. By engaging a diaphragm half from below the upper shell, securing the support assemblies to the upper diaphragm half and releasing the upper diaphragm half from the upper shell by removing bolts and keys to transfer the weight of the diaphragm half to the cart, the diaphragm half may be lowered from the upper shell and moved away. The diaphragm halves may then be refurbished and the process reversed to reinstall the diaphragm halves into the upper shell. During the process, the upper shell remains in its normal orientation, similarly as in the turbine.

Abstract: A method for repairing the rim of a steam turbine rotor, and a weld material for repairing such rotors. The method generally includes the steps of removing a damaged rim and its associated dovetail region, so as to form a surface at the perimeter of the rim portion. A weld repair region is then formed on the surface, which is machined to reconstruct the rim portion and the dovetail region exclusively with the weld repair region. Thereafter, an appropriately configured blade is secured to the rim portion with the dovetail region. The method is particularly intended for the repair of a steel alloy rotor, such as a NiCrMoV, NiMoV and CrMoV alloy, while the weld repair is formed with a nickel-base superalloy whose mechanical and thermal properties are compatible with the repair method and the steel alloy over a broad temperature range.

Abstract: A turbine rotor comprising a radially-inward portion of a steel alloy and a radially-outward rim portion circumscribing the radially-inward portion, the rim portion being formed by a weldment that includes a nickel-base superalloy region joining the rim portion to the inward portion of the turbine rotor, the nickel-base superalloy having a room temperature ultimate tensile strength of at least about 690 MPa.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for magnetic treatment of liquids. The method involves a single step of flowing the liquids through a plurality of magnetic fields, the magnetic fields alternating in field direction and progressively decreasing in field strength.

Abstract: A method of insulating buildings which include a plurality of support members with adjacent support members being spaced a predetermined maximum distance from each other. A plurality of stacked insulation panels (or an insulation roll) is provided with each insulation panel being formed by a panel of mineral wool insulation material having opposite longitudinal edges spaced a predetermined distance from each other at least equal to the predetermined maximum distance between the adjacent support members.

Abstract: A process for producing a detachable insulation for inaccessible hollow spaces on warm installations of pipelines, fittings, and containers includes the steps of surrounding the installation with a sheet metal jacket, supporting the sheet metal jacket at a spaced location from the installation in order to form a hollow space between the sheet metal jacket and the installation, filling the hollow space through an opening in the sheet metal jacket with free-flowing insulating material and a binder, curing the binder to form a rigid insulating shell, removing the sheet metal jacket, and cutting the insulating shell by appropriate axial and radial cuts to form individually removable insulation sections.

Abstract: Multiply substituted pyridine 1-oxides of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are, in each case, identical or different and represent alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms,R.sup.3 denotes hydrogen, andR.sup.4 denotes mercaptoalkyl having up to 4 carbon atoms, orR.sup.3 and R.sup.4 form, together with the nitrogen atom in the 4-position, a five- to seven-membered saturated heterocyclic ring which has up to 2 heteroatoms, the second heteroatom being oxygen, sulfur which can carry up to two oxygen atoms, or nitrogen in the form of the NR.sup.6 group, in which R.sup.